Formula 1 Drivers Analysis
2024-03-23
Github link (code attached): https://github.com/Cindy-f/Formula-data-analysis.git
1. Introduction: Our dataset contains 868 Formula 1 drivers from year 1950 to 2023, which contains information about drivers’ names, nationalities, seasons, number of championships, race entries, etc. We are trying to visualize the overall data distribution and make some conclusions, to find some common patterns between those racers and to predict future winners. Click on the following link to view the dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/dubradave/formula-1-drivers-dataset/data
2. Top Ten Race Starters:
From the bar plot above, the top ten race starters are (in order):
Fernando Alonso(356), Kimi Räikkönen(349), Rubens Barrichello(322),
Lewis Hamilton(311), Jenson Button(306), Michael Schumacher(306),
Sebastian Vettel(299), Felipe Massa(269), Riccardo Patrese(256), Jarno
Truill(252).
3. Top 10 Drivers by Pole Positions
From the bar plot above, the top ten drivers by pole positions are (in
order): Lewis Hamilton(103), Michael Schumacher(68), Ayrton Senna(65),
Sebastian Vettel(57), Alain Prost(33), Jim Clark(33), Nigel Mansell(32),
Nico Rosberg(30), Juan Manuel Fangio(29), Mika Häkkinen(26).
4. Top 10 Drivers with Most Wins:
5: Racers’ Nationalities:
(1): Top 5 nationalities overall: (with counts)
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## United Kingdom United States Italy France West Germany
## 164 160 99 72 39
As shown by the table and graph above, out of 868 Formula 1 drivers from
1950 to 2023, the top five most common nationalities are: United
Kingdom(164), United States(160), Italy(99), France(72), West
Germany(39).
(2): Nationalities of veteran drivers (at least 15 years active)
## [1] 242##
## United States United Kingdom Italy France Brazil
## 41 38 33 24 10
From the table and graph above, we learn that: out of 242 veteran drivers (at least 15 years active), the top five nationalities are: United States(41), United Kingdom(38), Italy(33), France(24), and Brazil(10). We can see that the top five nationalities of active drivers are roughly the same as the top five overall nationalities (except that here number of US veteran drivers surpass that of UK’s and the 5th most common nationality is Brazil instead of West Germany).
(3): Nationalities of Winners(whose Race_Wins value is at least 1)
## [1] 113##
## United Kingdom Italy United States France Brazil
## 20 15 15 14 6
From the table and graph above, the top five nationalities of 113 race winners are: UK(20), Italy(15), US(15), France(14), Brazil(6).
6. Trends: Drivers by Nationality and Decade
From above plot we can see the trend of drivers from US, UK, France, Italy overall decreased over the decades; drivers from Germany and Brazil slightly increased.